Shaving brush



1,641,721 p 61 1927' F. s. WILCOTT ET AL SHAVING BRUSH Fil d Nov. 20. 1926 I N VEN TORS fiedar/bk 6 Wicofl' Pefer More/0' B Y ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 6, 1927.

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mammal: a. WILGOTT AND PETER :J'. MOR LL I or salt ounitrriv, cat ir onmaa SI-IAVING m i Application filed November 20, 1926. Seria1'No.-1 l9,642.

Our invention relates to shaving brushes and is directed primarily to prevent the spread of infections from public shaving.

brushes, mugs and cakes of soap, such as are used in barber shops.

It is an object of our invention to provide a satisfactory shaving brush at a cost low enough to permit its discard after a slngle shave. It is a further object of our invention to incorporate soap directly in the brush so that a shaving mug is superfluous. It is a further object of our invention to incorporate the soap into the brush in such a manner as to produce a stiffening effect upon the brush.

' Other and ancillary objects of our invention will be brought out in the following description, or will be suggested by the use to which our invention may be put. Certain of its objects may be realized with less than all its advantageous features, or with modifications within its purview; we desire, therefore, not to be circumscribed beyond the limits of the claims constituting the final determination of our invention.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective illustration of our renewable shaving brush unit in final process of manufacture. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same wrapped and ready for sale. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a handle adapted to receive and removably hold a clean new brush unit for each shave. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the brush being wetted for use.

The device of our invention resembles an ordinary shaving brush in appearance and action the first time it is used, but it is not made of expensive materials, and is intended to be discarded after a single shave just as a paper towel is discarded after being used once.

Our renewable brush unit consists of a bunch 2 of fine vegetable fibers of hemp, cotton, bamboo, or other inexpensive material, collected into a brush-like bundle by a helical wrapping 4 of preferably coarse twine at one end. i

It will frequently be found that the fibers are not stiff enough as grown, and various means may be adopted to increase their stiffness. We have found impregnation with some hardening filler to be effective to this purpose, and a liquid shaving soap or soap fibers and bonds theminto a stiff brush. As

shown in Fig. 1 the brush has been dipped not quite to its unbound end 8 into the beaker 5 containing the liquid soap 6, leaving a soft furry top surface 8 backed by the stiff fibers.

When wetted in use the brush gradually softens. This too, is desirable, since a stiff brush is best for rubbing the lather into the beard, and a softer brush later, for applying a thick soft coat of lather over the face. Fig. l shows the brush under a water spout 10, being wetted for use.

The brushes may be sold in hermetically sealed cartons 12, (Fig. 2), at a cost of. a few cents a piece, and are designed to be discarded after a single shave. A wooden handle 1 (Fig. 3), may or may not be used with the brush, at the choice of the barber. The handle however, need not be discarded each time a new brush is used, because it does not touch the face. The handle has its end cored and threaded at 16 to receive the helically wound end 4 of the brush.

It willbe noted that the use of soap impregnation performs a double function. Obviously some merit could be retained even though the function of stiffening and bonding the brush were separated from that of supplying a soap dispenser in use. Thus our brush could be marketed with a soap powder, or soap paste dry-rolled into it. On the other hand, hair-bristle brushes could be impregnated to advantage with soap as taught herein. It will be recognized however that it is only by the combination of these features, that we realize the fullest merit of ourinvention.

We claim: 7 r

1. A shaving brush of the character described comprising a handle and a brush member; said member comprising a bunch of cheap vegetable fibers, a helically-wound non-metallic cord bonding said fibres into a brush-like tuft and forming a threaded attaching end, and a soap impregnation securing said cord to the tuft, stiffening said fibres, and bonding said fibres into a unit, and

said handle having a threaded socket to receive the said threaded attaching end of the brush member.

2. A shaving brush of the character described comprising a handle and a brush unit; the handle having a threaded socket;

and the brush unit composedof a bunch of v I cheap fibres, and a cord spirally Wound about one end of the bunch to bond it into a unit, and to provide threads-eon1p1emen ta'ry to those of the handle for threading the unit into the said socket of the handle.

In testimony whereof, We aflix our signatures. i FREDERICK G. WILGOTT. PETER J. MORELLI. 

